Offshore Citizens - Permanent Temporary Status in the Gulf

This study of citizenship and migration policies in the Gulf shows how temporary residency can become a permanent citizenship status.

List of contents

1. Limbo statuses and precarious citizenship; 2. Making the nation: citizens, 'guests' and ambiguous legal statuses; 3. Demographic growth, migrant policing, and naturalization as a 'national security' threat; 4. Permanently deportable: the formal and informal institutions of the Kaf¿la system; 5. 'Tä¿l Bachir' (come tomorrow): the politics of waiting for identity papers; 6. Identity regularization and passport outsourcing: turning minorities into foreigners; 7. Conclusion; 8. Methodological appendix; Bibliography; Index.

About the author

Noora Lori is an Assistant Professor of International Relations at the Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston University. She was a scholar at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies and received the 2014 Best Dissertation Award from the Migration and Citizenship section of the American Political Science Association.

Summary

Combining the study of minorities with migrants, this book examines the citizenship and migration polices of the United Arab Emirates to show how time is used to construct and police national boundaries. It will be of interest to anyone seeking to understand the challenges of citizenship in an era of migration.

Product details

• Authors: Noora Lori, Noora (Boston University) Lori, Noora Anwar Lori
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2019
• EAN: 9781108498173
• ISBN: 978-1-108-49817-3
• No. of pages: 302
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Social Theory, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / General, International Relations, Arabian Peninsula, Social Law, United Arab Emirates, Social law and Medical law